Welcome to Leadership Waupaca County...

Welcome to Leadership Waupaca County!!! I truly enjoyed getting to meet everyone during our first session and am looking forward to getting to know you all much better over the coming months. LWC is truly a journey that will be a lot of fun. The journey will focus on achieving a number of objectives - building standard skills, building process skills, exposing you to a number of issues, building your knowledge of certain topics, enhancing your social network, and building your confidence to lead in situations that are right now outside your personal comfort zone. As I stated during the first session, you will be uncomfortable at some point during the class. The only way leaders grow is to "get outside their box". On Friday night, I went to a leadership seminar and the speaker told the audience that if you are perfect the first time you do something then you waited way too long to do it. It was her way of saying, you probably are going to be nervous and certainly not perfect the first time you do something, but unless there is a first time then there is never a perfect time. Unless there is a first time then that skill will never be developed and your leadership potential unfulfilled.

As I told you, this is my first time blogging let alone running a blog. Aside from Jan R., this is the first time blogging for all of you too. I am certain this won't be perfect and it's definitely outside of my comfort zone, but with a little practice we'll all be comfortable with one more communication and teaching tool in 9 months.